Sentences with phrase «countries child mortality»

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Similarly, a study using data from 219 countries found that, for every additional year of education for women, the child mortality rate decreased by 9.5 percent.

But a lack of vaccines is a key reason high child mortality rates persist in many resource - poor countries of Asia and Africa.

Summary: Maternal and child undernutrition is highly prevalent in low - income and middle - income countries, resulting in substantial increases in mortality and overall disease burden.

Cuba, a poorer country than the United States but with substantially higher breastfeeding rates and much better breastfeeding support, has an under - 5 mortality rate of 7 children per 1,000 live births (better than the United -LSB-...]

That's what's best for moms and babies, and that's what will raise our current atrocious numbers of child and mother mortality in this country.

This effort is credited with radically decreasing the country's infant mortality rate from 65 deaths for each 1,000 children born in 1938 to 3 deaths per 1,000 births in 2013.

Studies in developing countries demonstrate that continued, frequent breastfeeding is associated with greater linear growth and further protects child health by delaying maternal fertility postpartum and reducing the child's risk of morbidity and mortality.

He added that Nestle was committed to complying with the 1981 World Health Organisation (WHO) Code of Marketing of Breast - Milk Substitutes, as implemented in national legislation worldwide, and followed the code or national laws — «whichever are stricter» in the 152 countries worldwide with high child mortality and malnutrition rates.

WHO Collaborative Study Team on the Role of Breastfeeding on the Prevention of Infant Mortality 2000, Effect of breastfeeding on infant and child mortality due to infectious diseases in less developed countries: a pooled Mortality 2000, Effect of breastfeeding on infant and child mortality due to infectious diseases in less developed countries: a pooled mortality due to infectious diseases in less developed countries: a pooled analysis.

there's some stuff looking at morbidity and mortality in young children who have been weaned (or not) that might be worth looking at... all developing country contexts but that's where you find enough children breastfeeding past infancy to look at!

download pdf12 pages - 566 kb Background: Lack of exclusive breastfeeding among infants 0 - 5 months of age and no breastfeeding among children 6 - 23 months of age are associated with increased diarrhea morbidity and mortality in developing countries.

Effectiveness of Vitamin A Supplementation in the Control of Young Child Morbidity and Mortality in Developing Countries.

But non-breastfed children in industrialized countries are also at greater risk of dying - a recent study of post-neonatal mortality in the United States found a 25 % increase in mortality among non-breastfed infants.

He said the Government had reduced maternal mortality rate in the country, and now more children were surviving beyond their fifth birthday resulting in a reduction in infant mortality.

Maternal mortality is increasingly high, Nigeria has one of the poorest maternal and child health indices in the world with maternal 800-3000 deaths per 100,000 live births, life time risk of dying from pregnancy related complications of 1:8 compared to 1:10 in developing countries (Nigeria Demographic Health Survey 2004).

The report explored the potential of biotechnology solutions to the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of development goals (such as halving child mortality) for all developing countries to reach by 2015.

I know each country's gross national product, educational level, child mortality, main export products, and so on.

It was good to see attention drawn to the need for more resources to reduce child mortality in low - income countries...

Writing in a linked Comment, Professor Peter Byass, Umeå Centre for Global Health Research says «Undoubtedly child mortality is falling, and the world should be proud of this progress» but he adds»... Of the estimated six million under - 5 child deaths in 2015, only a small proportion were adequately documented at the individual level, with particularly low proportions evident in low - income and middle - income countries, where most childhood deaths occur... That six million under - 5 children continue to die every year in our 21st century world is unacceptable, but even worse is that we seem collectively unable to count, and hence be accountable for, most of those individual deaths.»

For example, in developing countries where infant mortality rates are high, a woman's educational level is the strongest factor in determining whether her children survive or not.

New research suggests that men raised in countries with higher average lifespans and lower child mortality more strongly prefer women with softer features than do men raised in less healthy nations.

Previous studies by other researchers have shown that increasing the use of nanotechnology in agriculture in densely populated countries such as India and China has made an impact on reducing malnutrition and child mortality.

Child mortality has fallen dramatically even among China's minority groups, and in northwest and southwest regions, despite the fact that minority groups and underdeveloped areas are usually the hardest to reach and last to benefit from national health gains in most countries.

Although South Africa was never likely to meet the arbitrarily defined goal of reducing under - five child mortality by two thirds, the country is nevertheless back to the child mortality level it had before the HIV epidemic, which objectively should be considered a huge success.»

The mortality rate in the UK for children under five is 4.9 deaths per 1000 births, more than double that in Iceland (2.4 per 1000 births), the country with the lowest mortality rates.

«The higher than expected child death rates in the UK are a reminder to all of us that, even as we are seeing child mortality decline worldwide, countries need to examine what they are doing to make sure more children grow into adulthood.»

P. falciparum malaria is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in developing countries, infecting hundreds of millions of individuals and killing over one million children in sub-Saharan Africa each year.

The New York Times has been a strong advocate for lowfat diets, even for children, yet a recent NYT article noted that vitamin - A-rich foods like liver, egg yolk, cream and shellfish confer resistance to infectious diseases in children and prevent cancer in adults.13 A Washington Post article hailed vitamin A as «cheap and effective, with wonders still being (re) discovered,» noting that recent studies have found that vitamin - A supplements help prevent infant mortality in Third World countries, protect measles victims from severe complications and prevent mother - to - child transmission of HIV virus.14 The article lists butter, egg yolk and liver as important sources of vitamin A, but claims, unfortunately, that carotenes from vegetables are «equally important.»

Acute diarrhea is associated with high rates of mortality among children in developing countries [60].

The countries with the lowest quality of life have more children in their population and also a higher infant mortality rate.

The brilliant Hans Rosling has a data visualization video that helps debunk the myths of the birth and child mortality rates of the so - called developed and developing countries.

The authors note that «in 2004, seven of the 10 countries with the highest mortality rates in children under 5 were conflict or immediate post-conflict societies.»

How did these countries reduce poverty, end illiteracy, fund universal health care (far more effective than Obamacare), increase life expectancy, and reduce child mortality?

Fossil fuels and solid biofuels kill 4 - 7 million people prematurely worldwide each year, primarily in developing countries, and 20 % of the mortalities are children under the age of 5 years old.

Water - borne disease is a key cause of high child mortality rates in many developing countries.

Donors and national governments should strengthen and «climate proof» health, water and sanitation systems in developing countries with high levels of child mortality.

Studies performed in multiple countries have shown an increase in child morbidity and mortality during extreme heat events.26 Infants younger than 1 year27, 28 and high school athletes29, 30 seem to be at particularly increased risk of heat - related illness and death.